[Support of Raspberry Pi]

I was very happy to realize that the raspberry is now also supported. Many have waited a long time for this.
I immediately wrote an article about it on gnulinux.ch.
Hopefully this will not be a half-hearted project.
I also think it would be an advantage if Armbian would appear as a distribution on the Raspberry download page

[PWM Fan on Nanopi M4 ??]

i found a running task on friendlyelec desktop called "pwm fan"

 

But i found no more informations how to connect a pwm fan to the Nanopi M4

 

Which pins are needed to connect ?

 

Can i use a normal 5V Fan or is a special Fan needed ?

 

Anyone aware of this ?

[How to install Armbian on Nanopi M4 with SATA Hat ?]

thats exactly what i wanted to know

Many thanks Igor

 

 ....next time i read the  manual first :-)

 

 

[How to install Armbian on Nanopi M4 with SATA Hat ?]

Hello,

 

yesterday i see that the SATA Hat for the Nanopi is available now

 

is it possible to install Armbian on a SSD when i use the Sata Hat ?

 

Or is the EMMC or SD Card required for the OS ?

 

 

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

So far everything works well momentary

Currently tested are the Friendlyelec Bionic Image on EMMC and the Armbian Image on SD card.

The Friendlyelec works smoothly on the EMMC card.
Except for the problem that you have to switch manually between HDMI and 3.5mm jack.

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

15 hours ago, chwe said:

 

 

 

"newest and fastest" quite often ends here:

https://forum.armbian.com/forum/31-sd-card-and-psu-issues/

 

that's why I don't care about such information without actually prove that the used card is really fast (forum search will guide you how you can test it)... Especially when it's about Images we (as armbian team) are not 'in charge'.

 

about which Image do we talk here? switched to Armbian or still on FriendlyElec's image?

 

a short reminder (https://forum.armbian.com/guidelines):

A support question must include the following:

    Board you use
    Issue you face
    Description of your set-up (e.g. powering, connected hardware, used SD-Card)
    'sudo armbianmonitor -u' - this gives us some needed logs which makes debugging a way easier!

 

besides being in 'Development' not 'Technical Support':

Development


A section for more experienced users. For example for SoCs where Armbian support is currently not mature enough for full support, questions related to the build framework and 'Board Bring Up' for new boards we might consider supporting in the future. We can't provide the same level of support for WIP (work in process) SoCs cause kernels for those boards are simply not ready yet. Board Bring Up is mostly for experienced users which want to contribute in support for new boards/SoCs, a *please support random board* without any rational and no interest in contribution for such a support will simply be ignored. If you just want to point us to a new interesting board our water-cooler (General chit chat) is the right place for it. 

 

btw. @lanefu can you adjust the text there? 'Technical support' isn't anymore.. so the text need some small adjustments..

 

 

I'm talking about the Armbian image, of course.

But the script seems to have worked despite the error message.
Audio is now output as intended on the 3.5 mm jack.

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

On 5/6/2019 at 2:35 AM, NicoD said:

For eMMC you can use the eflasher image. You put that on an sd-card, and boot with the sd-card and eMMC connected. It will then install the image onto the eMMC.
It's a bit a walk around. This works a lot better with armbian.
It's not normal if that takes so long to upgrade. Is the network connection good? Do you use wifi or ethernet?
I think if you just remove hostapd everything should work with apt. Otherwise use aptitude to fix the problem. The use is the same as apt, but when it can't install or remove, it gives you different choices of what it can do. Sometimes you've got to choose no many times until the right sollution is found. Sometimes is quickly.
You can also get help on the friendlyElec forum on that. There should be a few people keepin an eye and ear open there for those issues.
I only use armbian, but tried FriendlyDesktop last week to test their OpenGL drivers. I didn't have problems I couldn't quickly resolve.

With Lubuntu armhf there is a problem with keyboard configuration. This is my fix for that.

Problem with keyboard-configuration
Before upgrade do : 
sudo locale-gen "en_GB.UTF-8"
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
sudo nano /etc/environment
  add          -> LC_ALL="en_GB.utf8"

Armbian is in my eyes as good as perfect on the M4. I don't know of anything important not working. Bluetooth does work, sudo armbian-config -> network devices ->install bluetooth
For the 3.5mm audio jack there's an easy fix.
 

    Download this file (open terminal and type this)

          wget https://forum.armbian.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=4093

    Run the following command

    alsactl --file ./asound.state.draft.201902018 restore

With that I don't know anything else not working. Greetings.

When i try the command i always get this  message

 

Found hardware: "realtek_rt5651-" "" "" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
alsactl: set_control:1325: failed to obtain info for control #19 (No such file or directory)
No state is present for card rockchiphdmi
Found hardware: "rockchip_hdmi" "" "" "" ""
Hardware is initialized using a generic method
No state is present for card rockchiphdmi

 

I want to use the 3,5 mm jack for Audio not the HDMI

 

 

 

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

lol.........no the SD Card is the newest and fastest Sandisk with 32 GB and it works perfect in my Odroid XU4

 

The reason was the old Friendlyelec Bionic Image that i have used

Today i download the last one and it works much better

Apt operations work fine and fast now

I also have used the hint from NicoD to make  the EMMC Card working ...thank for that

Is the workaround over an SD Card also needed for Armbian ?

 

Tomorrow i try the newest Armbian Image and im sure it will work like a charm 

 

Thanks to all the good guys here and specially Igor and his team for the greaat Job in the past and hopefully in the future

I first heard about him when i got my new Cubietruck and its still supported until now !!!!!

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

many thanks for the helpful hints

I'll try it out as soon as I can and report the outcome

 

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

11 hours ago, NicoD said:

The FriendlyARM images are also not that bad. There is an issue with hostapd.

 

Hi

you say that the FriendlyArm Image is not so bad

But.......its a nightmare to install or update software with the FriendlyArm Image using apt

Sometimes it takes hours to upgrade the packages after a fresh install

With my Odroid XU4 and Armbian it is done in some minutes

Starting programs has always a delay for seconds before something happens

Actually I run FriendlyArm (Bionic) with an SD card

On EMMC module it dont start for unknown reasons 

I will try the new Armbian next days

 

[Final Image for Nanopi M4 ?]

When can I expect a final Armbian image for the Nanopi M4 ?

I'm eagerly awaiting it and many others will surely be too

 

The image of friendlyarm is simply an imposition
You have the feeling of being on the road with the handbrake on.

[Sound problems with NanoPi M4]

I have Armbian running on my NanoPi M4

Everything is fine but..............

I have massive problems with pulseaudio

Im not able to get the sound working

So i tried to deinstall pulseaudio and install Alsa

After that i dont see anything regarding sound in settings menu or on the taskbar

For unknown reasons the wallpaper has resettet

Anyone who has a solution ?